Although AI is a scary concept for most, it has enormous potential to revolutionize and improve medical care. From reducing the time medical teams spend collecting patient information to predicting Parkinson's disease. However, this is not without risks. Conor highlights what is needed to safely implement multimodal AI in the healthcare system. Dr Conor Judge is a Consultant Nephrologist at University Hospital Galway, Saolta University Health Care Group and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Galway, having recently developed the MSc Applied Clinical Data Analytics.

Conor completed his PhD at the Health Research Board (HRB) Clinical Research Center in Galway.

Before becoming a doctor, Conor trained as an electronics and computer engineer and has a passion for combining data analysis and medicine. As a trainee, Dr Judge created two electronic health record databases at University Hospital Galway which have been used by over 100,000 patients since 2017.

Most recently, Dr Judge was awarded the Health Research Board's 2023 Clinician-Scientist Fellowship (CSF) Scheme, worth 700,000, with a research project on 'An artificial intelligence approach to improving treatment of blood pressure”. This will close the significant care gap in the management of hypertension. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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